New 5 tracks with the Panama’s finest ultra-dark noise Hardcore combo HEZ. Keeping the line of their before efforts they come back with the stomping 1-2-1-2 drum beats, less mid tempo than their previous recordings and more straight to the edge. Sharppy guitar sound and the tormented vocals keep remaining on it and also the special add of noise and desperate parts that make this band unique. Not far from bands like DESTINO FINAL but adding more noisy punch on it and the raw and angry sense that only a band from South America could bring these days. Artwork made by the great Izzad Radzali from Singapoure and recorded by Rodrigo Manzo in Panama and mixed by Will Killinigsworth on Dead Air Studios in US, this is a cooperation on the release with LOGICA CIEGA in PANAMA and A-Z SHOP in Japan.


Our take: Guerra Interior is the latest record from this hardcore band from Panama, carrying forward the sound they developed on their previous 12” and 7”, but with even more explosive results. The core of Hez’s sound is a heavy pogo rhythm with dark but catchy hardcore riffing and maniacal, distorted vocals. When I wrote about their previous records, I compared Hez to Blazing Eye, and while they still have some similar elements, they’re really developed their own sound on Guerra Interior. I’m particularly enamored with the catchy lead guitar lines and the brief but exciting explosions of electronic/synth noise, either of which makes the already-intense music bubble over into a froth of wild energy. Hez is great at those kinds of dynamics; see the first track, “Ruina del Hombre,” which tempts you to settle into the groove of the mid-paced parts only to blindsid you with ripping fast hardcore. This is one of those records where just listening to it makes you feel you’re in the middle of a mass of bodies, limbs and beer cans flying in a pressure cooker of energy.